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Why Electroshock (ECT) Should Be Banned
This historic, International Day of Protest against Electroshock in Boston and 24 other cities in
nine countries is to bring awareness to the dangers of Electroshock and urging an immediate ban.
This protest honors all shock survivors, especially anti-shock activist & author Leonard Roy Frank
who said “If the body is the temple of the spirit, the brain may be seen as the Inner
Sanctum of the body, the holiest of places. To invade, violate and injure the brain, as
electroshock unfailingly does, is a crime against the spirit and a desecration of the soul.”
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Since the early 1940s, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) also known as Electroshock
or Shock has become a commonly used controversial “treatment”. In
Massachusetts 15 hospitals administer Electroshock, including MGH.
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Each year, millions of people and their families are adversely impacted
worldwide. Survivors have testified before the FDA about their health and careers
ruined, memories and cognitive function permanently lost, and family lives
destroyed.
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Women and the elderly are its main targets; 2-3 times more women than men
are shocked. The elderly and children under 16 are at increased risk of Electroshock.
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Neither short or long-term efficacy nor safety have ever
demonstrated! Euphoria is a short-term effect of all such brain injury.
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Permanent memory loss is a clinical indication of brain damage, which is
not disclosed in most patient consent forms, although the risk of permanent
memory loss is minimalized by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in its
position papers.
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150-400 volts of electricity causes a violent Grand Mal seizure and
convulsion, while unconscious and paralyzed by a “muscle relaxant.” Today drugs
and anesthesia are used to prevent people from breaking bones during the seizure.
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Upon waking up from this induced coma, the person experiences many effects:
severe headache, physical weakness, disorientation, confusion, nausea,
vomiting, and memory loss.
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Most people are administered a “course” of 10-12 Electroshocks, sometimes
more. Electroshock earns the psychiatric industry an estimated $5 billion a year in
the United States alone.
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In 1978, the United States Food and Drug Administration classified ECT
machines as “unsafe” or “dangerous.” In 2011, the FDA re-affirmed its
earlier ruling, despite lobbying by the APA and other psychiatrists to get the
machines classified in Class-II as “safe” similar to a wheelchair or walker.
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Shock Treatment is crime against humanity!
For more information go to ectjustice.com and ectresources.org